La Revenant’s Review of

This book sucked me in quickly and, shortly thereafter, it captivated my attention with its unique story line.

“Alternate realities? Multiple universes potentially containing other Earths? People tracking and destroying alien-ghost-thingies that could somehow make holes between our worlds to climb through? What would be next? I wasn’t sure I wanted to know, but my curiosity overrode my fear as questions piled up.”

Addison, Darkside Sun

Basically the world is under attack from the dead (wraiths) of a parallel dimension. There is a machine, The Mortal Machine (ooh-wee-ooh), that is the center of a secret society, which is fighting to protect humanity from the wraiths that are attempting to take over the world thus destroying life, as humanity knows it.

La Revenant

Enter Addison Beckett, college student, plaid wearing, history enjoying girl who just happens to be able to see rifts in space and time. She has learned to ignore the rifts because, first and foremost she knows she is not crazy and seeing these rifts definitely rings the crazy bell and, secondly the rifts go away when she ignores them; it is just easier that way.

“Denial was a wonderful thing, like a rain slicker to keep the deluge of crazy from soaking too deep into my skin.”

Addison, Darkside Sun

Enter Asher Green, her professor who is quite irritating, overbearing, arrogant, and sexy as hell. I totally disliked him when I met him, but never mind that, he did have a few redeeming qualities (imagines a mute Asher, yup, that would do it).

“God, why did it seem like the hotter the guy, the bigger the douche?”

Addison, Darkside Sun

Asher is part of the secret society that works for/with(?) The Mortal Machine. He realizes Addison can see the rifts and proceeds to recruit her without giving her a choice in the matter. From there all sorts of fun stuff ensues. The end of the book was an ending I enjoyed, it made me smile 😀 *that is a warning to those of you who like things neatly tied up and happily ever after at the close of the book.

I absolutely enjoyed Jocelyn Adams’ writing style and her characters were definitely not flat and boring. I like books where I get to know a bit about the peripheral characters, thus capturing my attention and making me hope that there will be more stories to follow, which I am led to believe there will be more stories to follow because on the front of this book it states it is Darkside Sun: The Mortal Machine #1. All that being said, I would highly recommend taking this book to bed with you, or the couch, if that is where you prefer to read. It was worth my time (and yours!) to delve into this world that Jocelyn has created.

This was a complimentary book, gifted to me from the publisher, for an honest review.

Deliciously Devoured,

La Revenant

Darkside Sun

Addison Beckett tries hard to pretend she’s normal, but she’s far from it. Since she was six years old, she’s seen the world around her unraveling, as if someone is pulling a thread from a sweater and it’s all slowly coming undone. When she ignores it, it goes away, so that’s what she does.

Enter her arrogant-but-hot professor Asher Green. He knows all about her special brand of crazy. In fact, he might be just as nuts as she is. Asher insists that the dead from a parallel dimension are trying to possess the living in this one. And since Addison seems to be the only one who can see these “wraiths,” she just might be the key to saving the world.

Addison wants nothing to do with Asher or his secret society, The Mortal Machine. But as their animosity grows, she finds it harder and harder to ignore the chemistry between them. And when she discovers that Machine laws forbid her from touching him, she realizes that’s all she wants to do.
Stop the wraiths. Break the rules. Save the world. All in a day’s work.
Normal was overrated, anyway.